It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. (Joseph Addison)

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Joseph Addison

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